Little Things Quotes - Page 14

• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.

  Nicki Minaj

  Crazy, Thinking, Careers

  "BWW Interview - Nicki Minaj: 'I've Been Spectacular' on AMERICAN IDOL". Interview with Tyler Peterson, www.broadwayworld.com. March 26, 2013.

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• Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Art, Needs, Littles

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• Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.

  Edna Jaques

  Grateful, Kingdoms, Tonight

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• a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

  Lydia M. Child

  Mind, Littles, Great Things

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• Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

  Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Miss Silver Intervenes”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Littles, Feels

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2006.

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• It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, Play, Amplify

  "At The Office with Ed Helms". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. August 21, 2007.

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• That's when I began drinking coffee.  I was hung up on every little thing.  I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home.  Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Drinking, Coffee, Home

  Rosecrans Baldwin (2012). “Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Needs

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• There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

  Francois Fenelon

  Real, Views, Mind

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• Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off. I don’t anymore. I think it’s a slow thing. Like a thief who comes to your house day after day, taking a little thing here and a little thing there, and one day you walk round your house and there’s nothing there to keep you, nothing to make you want to stay. And then you lie down and shut up forever. Lots of little deaths until the last big one.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

  Christie Brinkley

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

  Josh Turner

  Blood, World, Littles

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• It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Littles, Misinterpretation

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.2478, e-artnow

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• Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Dream, Dark, Insecurity

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Dad, Regret

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• I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

  Kirk Douglas

  Love, Dream, Heart

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• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor.

  Chuck Knox

  Believe, Wrestling, Self

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• Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Yarn, Track

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• A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

  Sylvia Plath

  Children, Flower, Hair

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.17, Anchor

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• There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Numbers, Long

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• I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.

  Charles Bukowski

  Vegetables, Space, Waiting

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• My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

  E. Lockhart

  Life, Girl, Jealous

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• You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Depth, Study, Odysseus

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